{"id":2725,"date":"2022-02-16T05:20:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T05:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hafla.com\/blog\/?p=2725"},"modified":"2022-02-17T03:50:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T03:50:35","slug":"how-streaming-and-social-media-changed-the-game-in-the-event-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hafla.com\/blog\/how-streaming-and-social-media-changed-the-game-in-the-event-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"How streaming and social media changed the game in the event industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Social media and streaming have acted as catalysts in upping the standard as well as the reach of the event industry. Read on to know how.&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:15107,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;4&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:16767334},&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;14&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:0},&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Calibri, sans-serif&quot;,&quot;16&quot;:14}\">Social media and streaming have acted as catalysts in upping the standard as well as the reach of the event industry. Read on to know-how.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"toc_container\" class=\"toc_white no_bullets\"><p class=\"toc_title\">Contents<\/p><ul class=\"toc_list\"><li><a href=\"#Networking_opportunities\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">1<\/span> Networking opportunities<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Promotion\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">2<\/span> Promotion<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Marketing_redefined\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">3<\/span> Marketing redefined<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Automatic_filter\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">4<\/span> Automatic filter<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Communication_is_the_key\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">5<\/span> Communication is the key<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Live_platforms\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">6<\/span> Live platforms<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Empowered_attendees\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">7<\/span> Empowered attendees<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<h2><span id=\"Networking_opportunities\"><b>Networking opportunities<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The success of an event is largely based on networking opportunities, and social media is the perfect model to deliver relevant prospects. Consider social media as networking on steroids, always showing the way to draw people to events.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Promotion\"><b>Promotion<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Streaming and social media have transformed the art of promotion \u2013 before, during, and after an event. Social media engagement has replaced traditional promotion techniques and is very often the sole way to drive attendance. The huge number of people on some social media platform or the other ensures that attendance\/involvement increases exponentially because of online promotion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Marketing_redefined\"><b>Marketing redefined<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With social media stepping in and taking over yet another essential aspect of events, it has actually redefined marketing. Word of mouth has taken on a new meaning \u2013 with the click of a button, you have access to an entire target population. Gone are the days of making individual phone calls and personalized emails.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Automatic_filter\"><b>Automatic filter<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once the promotion for the event is set in motion, consumers are able to express their preference by liking, following, and joining pages for the event. As such, organizers actually get to know what their target audience is without having to filter through the entire population.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Communication_is_the_key\"><b>Communication is the key<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Social media has the unique ability to encourage participants to communicate and collaborate even before an event kicks off. This can transform the entire event \u2013 in a positive way \u2013 by offering opportunities organizers didn\u2019t even know existed. The sky&#8217;s the limit!<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Live_platforms\"><b>Live platforms<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Live formats of social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube take events to another level by allowing the event to be broadcast in real-time across multiple screens. People who could not participate are kept in the loop with constant updates. This inspires them to join in at a later stage or even the next time.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Empowered_attendees\"><b>Empowered attendees<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Empowered attendees who now have the power to review the event and act as critics, help push the level of an event up. Multiple sources of feedback make organizers strive to improve quality, content, and arrangements. It also allows event organizers to make changes based on feedback, which is instant with social media around. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media and streaming have acted as catalysts in upping the standard as well as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[60,102,94,96,98,100,95,101,93,97,99],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>7 Things About Online Events in Social Media - Hafla Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The success of any online event relies on marketing for events &amp; exposure that a live streaming event can get on Social media.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hafla.com\/blog\/how-streaming-and-social-media-changed-the-game-in-the-event-industry\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"7 Things About Online Events in Social Media - Hafla Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The success of any online event relies on marketing for events &amp; 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